DICK STRAKER

He has designed projections for opera, theatre, fashion and architectural events, including Alexander McQueen’s fashion shows and Savage Beauty exhibitions. He formed the company Mesmer in 1993. Credits include Becoming Nancy (Birmingham Rep), Rusalka (Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, Liège), The Pillowman (The Duke of York’s Theatre, London), Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Complicité, London), Le Roi Arthus (Tirol Festival Erl), A Monster Calls, Richard II (The Old Vic, London), Greek (Scottish Opera), Carmen (Grange Festival), Aida (Opera North), Notorious (Gothenburg Opera), Fortunio (Grange Park Opera), Cymbeline and Love’s Sacrifice (Stratford RSC), The Ring Cycle (Royal Opera House with Stefanos Lazaridis), Aristophanes Now (Speira Speira with Stamatis Kraounakis), Hitchcock Blonde (Royal Court Theatre, London), Julius Caesar (Barbican Centre), The Woman in White (Palace Theatre, Marquis Theatre, NY), Henry V, The Coast of Utopia, Jumpers (National Theatre, London) and Riverdance (Point Theatre, Dublin).